Episode Title: "Sakura to Yuki no Atara Shingakki" - Sakura and the Snowy New School Year
First Aired: April 6, 1999

Cards Captured: Snow

Battle Costume

Sakura's having that dream again... She's still standing in front of Tokyo Tower with Kero, raining Clow Cards and sakura petals. She begins to recognize the person standing on the Tokyo Tower -- is it Mizuki-sensei?

It's morning, and Kero-chan's scolding Sakura for not waking up! Starting today, Sakura's a fifth-grader, and everything's still normal -- except for the part where she's becoming an experienced Cardcaptor and is gaining more magical powers! That morning, Sakura's father left for a business trip, while Touya had morning duties. Sakura's in luck, because she gets to walk with Yukito, who got a flat tire! Yukito gives Sakura a birthday/new school year present, too.

Sakura's classmates are the same, but she gets a new teacher this year! Sakura gets "hanyaan" when Mizuki-sensei, her teacher for the year, walks into the room. But she also remembers her dream, and wonders if it was really her... As the class gets ready to go outside, Mizuki-sensei tells Sakura that because something pretty is falling outside, they should go before too much falls. When Sakura looks outside, it's beginning to snow.

At home, Sakura opens up Yukito's present: it's a watch! While Sakura's in her hanyaan state, Kero tells her that there's a strange power coming from Mizuki-sensei, and can't sense the Cards because of her presence. Downstairs, as Sakura prepares dinner, Touya comes home soaked in snow! It seems that the whole town has been covered head to foot in the snow, even though it's springtime in April! While Sakura and Tomoyo are on the phone with each other, they begin to assume that it's a Clow Card!

Flying above the city in Tomoyo's costume, Sakura remarks that the snow is building up too much, and meets with Syaoran and Meiling. Li-kun says that the Snow card is behind all of this, and can walk on the snow with his magics. Sakura also can use the Float card to walk on the snow, and tells Li-kun that Mizuki-sensei had probably foreordained this! But before they know it, a snowstorm emerges from the skies! Syaoran then grabs Sakura and runs away from the snowstorm, which is actually chasing them! Sakura uses the Fly card to escape and tells a blushing Li-kun to get on. But the more they fly away, the more snow drenches the town! Syaoran tries to melt the snow with fire magics, but to no avail!

Sakura finds that her watch from Yukito's gone missing, and gets really mad! They land atop the Tsukihime shrine post, and Sakura uses the Firey against Snow! Firey not only obliterates the snowstorm, but melts away all the snow in town! Syaoran and Kero are surprised at how mad Sakura got and how it affected Firey's will, while Sakura finds Snow flying around and captures it. No matter what, though, Sakura lost the watch, and starts to cry. Syaoran comforts her and tells her that he'd help her find it. When Sakura thanks him, he turns really red! Mizuki-sensei then appeared, and returned the watch to Sakura. "Good work today. Now, go home and rest up... Good night."